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05/02/03
Undisputed (2002)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:50
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: While not the deepest boxing movie out there, Undisputed is successful at hitting its aspiration of being nothing more than a genre picture.
Reviews for Undisputed
Top Critic[A] rock-hard, streamlined "B" movie.
05/26/06
Coy but exhilarating, with really solid performances by Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes.
08/23/02
A stylish but steady, and ultimately very satisfying, piece of character-driven storytelling.
08/22/02
If Hill isn't quite his generation's Don Siegel (or Robert Aldrich), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair; it's all bluster and cliché.
08/27/02
A first-class, thoroughly involving B movie that effectively combines two surefire, beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film.
08/23/02
This is a throwaway, junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself.
08/22/02
Rhames is a tightly harnessed bundle of fury, Snipes a restrained champion who seems to have made inner peace with the crime of passion that sent him away for life, and Falk a riveting delight.
08/25/02
An average B-movie with no aspirations to be anything more.
08/24/02
At 90 minutes this movie is short, but it feels much longer.
12/17/02
Overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial, (it's) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring.
08/22/02
A terrific B movie -- in fact, the best in recent memory.
08/23/02
Writer/director Walter Hill is in his hypermasculine element here, once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that, in many other hands would be completely forgettable.
09/30/02
Like Undisputed itself, Snipes' bravura turn is a throwback to no-frills old-school macho in the Eastwood-McQueen mold.
08/28/02
Each punch seen through prison bars, the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs. man as Brother-Man vs. The Man.
08/22/02
Cuts right through the B.S. giving a big middle-fingered “shut up” to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another.
08/22/02
This is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in September.
08/23/02
Walter Hill's pulpy, stylized boxing melodrama Undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity.
08/25/02
We have no idea where these characters have been, so we don't care where they're going.
09/20/04
It's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest.
08/25/02
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